From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Highpoint DC7280 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:28:01 -0600 Message-ID: <4FDFF1C1.4060808@gmail.com> References: <4FDEDE3A.7030507@psi5.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-gh0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:40748 "EHLO mail-gh0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753347Ab2FSD2I (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:28:08 -0400 Received: by ghrr11 with SMTP id r11so4291737ghr.19 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:28:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FDEDE3A.7030507@psi5.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Brandt Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 06/18/2012 01:52 AM, Christian Brandt wrote: > My company got hold of a Highpoint DC7280 for evaluation purposes. As we > weren't that much impressed - mostly due abysmal propetiary drivers and > support - I got it as a toy gift to play at home. > > Abstract in novella form: it is a dirt cheap 32 Port SATA-Controller. It > features eight Marvell Chips each with a four port SATA Port Multiplier. > Highpoint has abandoned all support (as usual) right a week before > releasing it and the driver - dated 2011-06 - needs even some fiddling > to compile under 3.0. Then it crashed upon writing. Besides that it is > not THAT bad... gets around 250MB/s per Controller even with all eight > controllers under maximum load. > > Is anyone else poking it with a stick? > > [1] http://www.highpoint-tech.cn/PDF/DC7280/DC7280_DS.pdf > > [2] > http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/DC7280/driver/Linux/dc7280-linux-src-v1.0-110621-1313.tar.gz > (if KERNELVERSION==2.6 then... ok, so much about that one...) > What does lspci -vv show for that board? It looks like that driver contains a binary blob so who knows what it is actually doing internally.